Ambulance Victoria's (AV) volunteer first responder team in Lang Lang has marked a major milestone, celebrating 20 years of providing emergency care to the community.
Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) volunteers are dispatched at the same time as an ambulance to potentially time-critical emergencies, including traffic accidents and medical cases.
Volunteers are trained to provide advanced first aid in remote communities and surrounding towns and play an integral role in AV's emergency response as they are often first to arrive on scene.
Lang Lang CERT team leader Rosie Keane, a founding member, said the team had evolved from its original group of 20 volunteers.

"More than 100 people have been part of the team in the past 20 years.